It was Game Seven of the NBA Finals featuring the best rivalry in the league (both historically and in modern day), the best player in the world, and intriguing subplots loaded with vindication and legacy...

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The Lakers and Celtics will play a Game 7 in the 2010 NBA Finals. Soak that in for a moment. There could be no better ending to what will be the last game of the season, played by the last two teams standing...

Five Biggest Takeaways From Game One 1) The Celtics have nobody to guard Kobe. Of all the new faces this year, the biggest change is who's missing: James Posey. Kobe is destroying the Celtics guards, who are piling on the fouls...

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For the Lakers, Mavericks, Spurs, Cavs, Celtics, and Magic, the NBA regular season was a dry, tedious wait. Like staggering through a sand-blown desert, the only thing worth looking forward to was the oasis that is the NBA Finals, eight months later...

Of all of LeBron's greatest moments; the Palace game, his ahead of the curve Finals berth, the 45-point duel with Paul Pierce, his dunk over Kevin Garnett in the 2008 playoffs was the most important...

I hate the Boston Celtics. I grew up in Southern California. Showtime Lakers and I were born in the same summer; Pat Riley had just won his first championship as coach, and James Worthy had just been drafted...

It's hard to complain about a team that will be the No. 1 seed in a very competitive Western Conference for the third season in a row. Especially one favored to make its third straight NBA Finals appearance...

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I don't know the name of every General Manager in the league, and I only care about the really good ones or the really bad ones. Kevin Pritchard of the Portland Trail Blazers is one of the really good ones...

I have looked into the crystal ball of NBA fandom to see exactly what will happen this summer. Needless to say, I was shocked to see the NBA landscape change so dramatically, with an unprecedented number of free agents bolting for new teams...

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We've gathered the biggest names on Bleacher Report to discuss the biggest name in the NBA. All contributor's are top ten NBA writers for Bleacher Report. Click their names to find out more about them and their impressive bodies of work...

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LeBron James is a verifiable force of nature, dominating by leaving his massive paw prints all over the court. As the statisticians will tell you, LeBron has been stringing together some of the finest regular season performances in NBA history...

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Lamar Odom has become so synonymous with the following phrases it's become cliché to use them; inconsistent, enigmatic, sugar-addicted. The truth about Lamar Odom is that he's the perfect fit for the Lakers, and was always the right choice for them...

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